Extraction Series
Digital scan, aluminum foil, glitter, woodcut
129.5 x 101.6 cm
2010
Extraction Series
Digital scan, aluminum foil, glitter
42.9 x 32.1 cm
2009
Extraction Series
Digital scan, aluminium foil, glitter
110.5 x 113.5 cm
2009
Extraction Series
Digital scan, aluminum foil, glitter, vinyl
109.2 x 83.8 cm
2009
Extraction Series
Digital scan, aluminium foil, glitter
52.5 x 36.5 cm
2009
Extraction Series
Digital scan, aluminium foil, glitter
101.6 x 76.2 cm
2010
Using the documentary photographs of her previous collages as a foundation, pieces that often incorporated images of musical and political figures from the 1970s and 1980s, Sparks introduces a new series of works on paper and stretched canvases in which the figure has largely disappeared. In the absence of these icons, extracted fragments and sections of collage material are imbued with a new and evocative signification, alongside the scanned aluminum foil and piles of glitter that have become Sparks’ signature gesture. Reconfigured, the compositions function as residual imprints upon which Sparks has placed post-it notes, woodcuts and stitched fabric. The resulting collages and paintings, for which she has coined the neologism extractions, intimate the historical avant-garde and the gender-based innovations of the Pattern and Decoration movement. [Extract : Elizabeth Dee]
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